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Although Katherine Hepburn and Peter O’Toole had met years earlier and she was a great admirer of his work, she had no intention of putting up with the rather bad behavior he often exhibited… “You’re known to be late,” she told him on the first day of work. “I intend for you to be on time. I hear you stay out at night. You’d better be rested in the morning…”
O’Toole readily admitted in her presence that she reduced him “to a shadow of my former gay-dog self.” “She is terrifying. It is sheer masochism working with her. She has been sent by some dark fate to nag and torment me.” Her reply: “Don’t be so silly. We are going to get on very well. You are Irish and you make me laugh. In any case, I am on to you and you to me.”

- from the Turner Classic Movies review of Lion in the Winter. Many people’s favorite movie for a reason. Oh, and turns out Hepburn was descended from her character, Eleanor of Aquitaine, tracing her lineage back nearly a thousand years to children from the monarch’s marriages to both Henry and the king of France. Here, well worth it.

Although Katherine Hepburn and Peter O’Toole had met years earlier and she was a great admirer of his work, she had no intention of putting up with the rather bad behavior he often exhibited… “You’re known to be late,” she told him on the first day of work. “I intend for you to be on time. I hear you stay out at night. You’d better be rested in the morning…”

O’Toole readily admitted in her presence that she reduced him “to a shadow of my former gay-dog self.” “She is terrifying. It is sheer masochism working with her. She has been sent by some dark fate to nag and torment me.” Her reply: “Don’t be so silly. We are going to get on very well. You are Irish and you make me laugh. In any case, I am on to you and you to me.”

- from the Turner Classic Movies review of Lion in the Winter. Many people’s favorite movie for a reason. Oh, and turns out Hepburn was descended from her character, Eleanor of Aquitaine, tracing her lineage back nearly a thousand years to children from the monarch’s marriages to both Henry and the king of France. Here, well worth it.